Brian Goldman and Charlotte Baigent Earn Repeat Recognition for Leading Litigation Work

For the second year in a row, HSG associates Brian Goldman and Charlotte Baigent were individually highlighted in Legal 500 for their work on significant matters over the past year.

Brian, whose background spans two federal appellate clerkships, has built a wide-ranging commercial litigation practice across trial and appellate work in high-profile matters. He was on the HSG trial team representing Zunum Aero Inc., examining multiple witnesses and helping win an $81.3 million jury verdict against Boeing for trade secret misappropriation related to electric aircraft development. He later helped secure reinstatement of the verdict on appeal in the Ninth Circuit. Brian also represented investment funds at trial and on appeal in the Serta COVID-related refinancing dispute, winning reversal of the bankruptcy court’s judgment on the core contract issue. He has successfully argued before the New York Appellate Division and helped secure multiple U.S. Supreme Court certiorari grants.

Charlotte brings a cross-border perspective to HSG’s litigation practice, having served clerkships at the Supreme Court of Canada and the British Columbia Court of Appeal. She was also part of the winning Zunum Aero trial team, taking and defending multiple depositions and examining witnesses at trial, including technical experts. Her broader practice spans complex commercial disputes, including representing Visa in multibillion-dollar antitrust litigation in which major retailers are challenging longstanding payment card rules. She also recently litigated a $5 billion contract dispute in private arbitration among Fortune 500 companies and served as first-chair representing Molecular Dynamics at oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on a novel issue of international arbitration law.

Both Brian and Charlotte have had their wins recognized in Law360’s Legal Lions column and The American Lawyer’s Litigators of the Week column. They are among 14 HSG lawyers recognized in this year’s Legal 500 guide.